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​TURKEY - CAPPADOCIA

Urgup

The center of Ürgüp boasts many fine old houses of carved Cappadocian stone. The soft volcanic tufa lends itself to carving for decoration and to expansion: if the house needs a new room, the residents merely hollow one out of the hillside into which the house is built. Temenni Hill is a high rock ledge looming above the very center of town, with a saint's tomb at its edge.